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SUBOOMlUTfEE OF 'fIlE

C01UlITrEE ON FOREIGN RELATIONS

UNITED STATES SENATE

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Relative to Testimonv given bv

Max Gerson, M. D.

815 Park Ave. New York, N. Y.

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Senator PEPPEL Now Dr. Mu Gerson, of Gotham Hospital, NewYork. We will hear Mr. s. A. Markel, of Richmond, VL , first.Gentlemen, you have heard twice the bell ring for the calling of aquorum for the Senate.. so I would like us to make our statementsjust as brief· as poSsible, and if you could make them orally andfile your written statements for the record, it might save time.

STATEI[EJIT :BY S. A. KAROL, BIClDlOBD, VA.

Mr. MARKw.. In the interests of saving time, I have & ltatementhere that I will file- for the record.

(Mr. Markel's'prepared statement is as follows:)~ 9TA.'1'I3IIJdft D ' 8ul1JJ:L.A. I I ,..,My name i l l Samuel A. Markel. My residence llII 8410 IIODumeot Avenue.

Blehmond, Va. I am a citi2len of the Untted Statel, baviDe been born lDJDllsabetb, N. J., Unltt'd States of AmerIca.I am in favor of the bin 1Jl princtple. There are v e ~ few undertakJnp more

Important than this to which the United States Government' could a d d ~ltaelf. If my information 18 ~ between 450 aDd GOO people die each dayof this drt"aded di8ease, in other words, about 165,000 to 1 ~ O O O each year. Tbia,of course. does not take into account the tremendous suflertnc by cancer patients.MiJll0D8 of dollars have been and are beine spent In cancer 'Te8earch," and

while i t Is unlmown how much of the actual dollar flnds Its way Into research, ascompanad with other expenRe8, the amaZing fact is that the medical profel!lSloD18 apparently still " r f t l l e a ~ h l n g " on the sobject matter of e a ~ , while there

l'ftldes in, New York City am unaasumlnc pbJBlcian who has tOOK stnce pa88edtbe perioo of ret8 lnwh on :mimals and is nmn l l y treating and, in my humbleopinion as a layman. curing MIneer In human beinp.

I baTe RfleD patient" who appeared to me to be 80 far lOne .. the resnlt of theravages of cancer 118 to be beyond the pole of anything but miracles. TheRemiracles are in fact being performed by Dr. Max Genoa, 681 Madison Avenue,New York.

I bave seen lIOIIle of tbeRe ft!8U1ta.

The wife of one of my fnends underwent an opentlon tor eaucer at theWalter Reed Hospital In Washington where her breaSt was removed. and wbiehappeared to agravate ber sitnatlon and i t appears that cancer bad thereaf ter

1IP1"'f'Ild over her luRp. Alter a visit In NeW' York fo-r several montbs u n d ~ r thetreatment of this s c t ~ u t l s t , Dr. Geraoo, Ibe h u returned to ber home tn Richmond,Va., she bas gained In weight, and. 80 far as I know. Is cancer free. She MYS

she h8s never fe lt better In her life. Her name is ill'lL W. G. Wharton. Heraddress is 2R06 East Frnnklln Street. Richmond, Va., and her huaband Ispresently tbe buildlnglnspeetor tor the dty of Rlehmond.I my&Plf watt relieved of " 'Very serious case of OIIteoartbrttis by Dr. GerSOD

after my own doctor had pronounced my condition lDcurable.My only interest In this matter ill a humanitarian one, having lost my wife

with this drMded disease. and I feel that the leas t I ean do Is to add my voieeand such t u n d ~ as I am able to the eradication of cancer, and I have therefore

given treely ttl the various campaigns for l"E'search. I t appears, however, that ROmedoctors nre f t ~ h t i n ~ Dr. Gerson. I can readily ,nnderstand tbat when reRUUs sofantastic are ohtalned that such claims can hardly be believable. My q'llarrelwith these ~ n t l e m e n Is the fad that they will fmmtadtately say such tbfng,9 are



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Impossible. or the doctor . . a falte,. without even Itoppiq to Inquire what Isbeing done. I have bad the lame aperlence with my own doctor&, who merelythrow up their banda aDd 887 that 1Ul70ne claiming to cure cancer 1$ a fake, andwhlle I understaDd that the ~ c a l profession considers It unethical for anydoctor to 1&7 that he cures aD1 allmeDt unless that cure bas been in effect for")'ean or more. I andentand further than the oldest patient in p o ~ n t of treat

ment tor caDcer wblch Dr. Genon haa, inthe

United States, Is abo\tt " or -ilia7Mr&, and I hope that the IOOd doctOI'll of the medical professionwill excuseme, i f I as a l a ~ 1187 that I would not den7 the resultS that I have seen onaccount of 8 montlill or 110, aDd I feel that I t 18 worth)' of InveatipUon andcertalD17 of further ~ r d L

The very tact that the patient. ~ t e d b7 Dr. Genon are llvinc toda7 when

the)' were deltlned to dI•• 01' "" ' " QQ , according to tbe 8tatements of tbeeecood doctol'll whO treated I:JIeDI. I .)' Ia a lenaatlonal result aDd the least thatcan be .ld for It la that Dr. 'Genon has accompll.&bed sometblnc that no oneel8e in the medical profe881oa baa accomplished with respect to the treatmentof. cancer, 10 tar .. I am a&le toueertaILrl would bate to tblnk dlat tile antipathy to Dr. GerllOll wou14 be In all7mannw: auoclated with tile tad tbat hie treatments are dletal)' and Ill'e' not sur-,caL JBe" does not 1J8e suJ'Pl1 er ret"ODimend mrgery,_ 8S I understand it , unlessthere IDQ' be 8OIIl8 remote ea.' TJlerefore, i f this treatment ill effective, as Iltelleve It to be , the public woa1cJ be reUeTed of minions of dollars of surgicaltees, and I repeat, I would hate to think that such possibilities IIIhould incenseH7 of .. aarpGD8; who -aftB' all are presumed to be bumanltananll as welLDr. Oel'llOn baa no doubt . . . enemies a . the result of'his dietary therapy,wherein he does not permit pat1eDtII to smoke or to drink Intmdcatlng liquorsor to ~ l l 8 1 J I I l e caDDed IOOd8 alld o t I l ~ IteIM which ~ l d materially affect tradeIn that respect If It become-anlveftla1,and of ~ o u r a e ' i t was' not designed. forDr. Gerson to -mate frleudl" 'but fttJier to trent cancer as tbe result of themany years of his QPeI1enee.

I think tlds neW -approadlla ftl 'J' Important Binee apparently cancer researcband the cancer refIetlrcb dollar has beeD traveling for many years down the.m e avenue of conventional orthodox research. and apparentl7 those ~.elentlsts are nnwlll1q to look at or live credence to a n y t b l ~ new. In Rnyevent, the dlscoTeriee of Dr. Ger80D should be mrried further, 8111, In my bumble opinion, he baa anloeted the door to an avenue of approach to tbIJJ problemfrom 'which a solution will be foand.

To DIY mind it Is of o u ~ n d l b c Importance tbat facllltiflS be provided In 1I0memanner, so that Dr. Gerson ma.v train other doctol"l! In bis technique and that

hundreds of th011l&nds ma7 be treatt'd rather than the limited number that belaable to persouaU7 attend. It would be a calamity i f anythln" happened toDr. GerIIOn with no one left to carl'7 on In th18 p_artlcular fteJd, and t bope thattile committee wD1 Bee- to It tbat In tbe development of cancer research, dletal'Jtbek'apy wiJl have an Important part.

Mr. M,unnr:x., I want to say at the outset that I am here in favor ofS. 1875. At first I was constrained to o p p ~ that bill like a lot ofother ~ o p l e . There was a general apathy. I think Mr. Perlmutter's ..c;ommIttee has stirred up some pubhc interest_ but there was a feeling that after 50 or more , . ~ n , millions and millions of dollars spent,with the helt»less f e e l ~ upon the part of these victims, that out ofit ~ w nothmg that they could lean on, not even a hope, and that itwould just be another hundredmillion dollars down the same rat hole,at the cost of thousands of dollars per "rat." I feel, however, that weoup:ht to do something.

The only assurance that I would like to see.is that the commissionas constituted would be absolutely independent, that it would be will-ing to do a job of research, as the name implies-every avenue of re

search that lends promise of...

solution of thIS problem. There shouldnot be a closed corporation or a gentleman's club where nothing wouldbe heard. from it.



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We have present here cancer patients, victims, citizens of the UnitedStates, and I do not know who would have a greater right, Mr. Chair-man, to express their opinion about the expenditures of public moneyfor this purpose than those people. As far as I know, they are in

favor of this bill, but I feel fully that research ought to be what itimplies.

Since we have been here 50 people have died of cancer, while we arein this hearing. Money, as stated here, means nothing. We spentbillions to destroy people, and probabl>,: we can spend a few hundredDlillion dollars for the recapture of hfe. That is what this bill is

designed to do, if it will do It; but I am not in favor, Mr. Chairman,of making the commission the tail to any existing kite. I think thatit should be absolutely independent. Let them decide what they wantto

do.Let them adopt their

own rules.All they

beedto be

is honestscientists and honest Americans.Now, what bothered me was, as I said, before millions are being spent

for research. We are still researching with animals, while here, anunassuming scientist in New York-and I hope the medical professionwill pardon me for using the word "cure"-is curing cancer today.

Now, I understand that a patient must have been free of a re.-

currence of disease for 5 years before an ethical doctor would be permitted to say the patient was "cured." Well, fortunately, nobody can

take my license away, because I am an ordinary layman, I am not ascientist, I am not a doctor-and I will not cloud the results on accountof for 6 months. I say when the patil'nt has lived 4th years longerthan the tilne allotted by reputable doctors, I am willing to say he wascured. At least, he lias not been buried when he was designed to be bythe hospitals that sent him hOlne to die, Mr. Chainnan. They weretold that they could not live but a few months.. That is 4 years ago.Somethintz; has been done for them. I t has not been surgery. I t has

not been radium. I t has not been X-ray-and those a.re the only th.ree

things, if my information is correct, that the millions of dollars hadbeen spent upon. I say if there is another avenue, a nutritional ave-nue-which this is -or anything else which gives promise of the cure

of cancer, these research artists at least should be willing to conde-scend to look at it, 1 t l r ~ Chairman. In this case there have been out-standing scientists, I am told, who have been told of this, and they donot even want to look at it. I do not ask them to admit that it is true.At least take a look.Senator PEPPER. Well, suppose we hear Dr. Gerson.Mr. MARKEL. Yes.Senator PEPPER. I have been informed by lire Markel and by a

g e n t l e ~ a n from Florida who is a friend of mine, they have been verymuch Impressed by the work that has been done by Dr. Gerson, andthey have requested t hat he be heard, here, at this hearing. I assentedto the request. Mr. ~ I a r k e l , I believe we could do better, in view ofthe short t ime-and I know you would like to do this-to hear Dr.Gerson as soon as we can.

Mr.MARKEL.

Yes; and we have Dr. Miley, here.Senator PEPPER. All right. I have those two.Mr. MARKEL. There are those two.



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STATEKElI't BY DR.•AX GERSON, GOTHAM HOSPITAL,

SEW YORK. 11. Y.Senator PEPPa. You may proceed, Dr. Gerson. Your name IS

Dr. Max Gerson'

Dr. GERSON. Max Gerson.Senator PEPPEIL,WiII you ~ v e us a little of your background.Dr. GERSON. M.1 office. is 667 Madison Avenue, and I reside at 40

West Fifty-fifth Street, New York City.I was bOrn in eastern German)", October 18, 1881. I graduated from

the University of Freiburlf im Br., where I received my license anddegree in May 1907. I was assistant. later associate and on the staffof several famous b ~ i t a l s J . . for •about 13 years: with Prof. AlbertFraenkel, internist, Berlin; rrof. B. Kroenig, internist, Berlin; Prof.

Otfried Foerster, neurologtst! Breslau, for 4 ~ l e a r s ; and Prof. Ferdinand Sauerbruch, Munich, tor 4 years; Pro. Herman, Zondek, internist, Berlin.I came to this country November 1936, passed the medical examina

tion, and received my New York license January 27, 1!)38, my citizenship (No. 5961570) July 13, 1 9 4 4 ~ delayed by the war.I am a member of the AMA,Medical Society of New York State, and

Medical Society of New Yo:rk County.The dietetic treatment which has {or many years 'bef.n known as the

"Gerson diet," was developed first to relieve my owr. .::;evere milIrainecondition. TIlen it was successfully applied to patients with allergicconditions such as asthma as well as diseases of the intestinal tractand the liver pancreas apparatus. By chance a p n t i ~ n t with lupusvulgaris (skin tuberculosIS) was cured f o l 1 o w i n ~ the use of the diet.After this success the dietetic treatment was used in all other kindsof tuberculosis-bones, kidneys, eyes, l u n g s ~ and so forth. It, too,was h i ~ h l y favorable in many other chronic diseases. such as arthritis,heart diseases, chronic sinusitis, chronic ulcers, including colitis, highblood pressure, psoriasis, sclerosis multiplex, and so forth. The moststrikirig results were seen in the restoration of varim:::3 kinds of liverand gt!ll b.dder diseases which could not be i n f l u e n c ~ d by othermethOds up to the present.

The great number of chronicdiseaseS which responded to the dietetictreatment showed clearly that the human body lost. part of its resistance and healing power, as he left the way of natural nutrition forgenerations.

The fundamental damage starts with the use of artificialf ~ r t i l i z e r

for vegetables and fruits as well as for fodder. Thus the chemicallytransformed vegetarian and meat nourishment, i n c r e a s i n ~ throup:hgenei'ations, transfofms the organs and functions of the human bodym the wrong direction.Another basic defect lies in the waste of excrenlflnts of thp cities.

Instead of returning the natural manure to the fruit-bearing soil, itis led int.o the rivers, killing llnderwnt(\r Hfp. Thp natural cycle isinterrupted and rnmtkind has to suffer dflarly for t h ~ violation. Life

in forest and wilderness should teach 11S t h ~ i ~ s 8 0 n .But we. can ref,!:ain the lost defens() and h f l a l i n ~ power if wp returnas c l o ~ as possible to the laws of n 8 t n r ~ a ~ they are c r ~ a t e d . Highly



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(Dr. Gerson placed on file with the committee a pamphlet entitled"Dieta:r:y Considerations in Malignant Neoplastic Disease.")

Dr. GERSON. The tuberculosis treatment was tested with favorableresults in Munich, Kassel, and Berlin. A demonstration was sched-uled in the Berlin Medical Association for May 5, 1933, but I leftGermany for Vienna after the political upheaval, March 1933.

The first cancer patient (bile ducts) was treated in 1928 with success.Seven favorable cases followed out of 12 and remained free of symp.

toms up to 71Ai years.In Vienna tried a modification of this treatment in six cases of

cancer without any result.After 2 years I moved to Paris where a patient, Mr. Horace F i n a l y ~

president of the Banque de Paris, bought a clinic for continuation ofthis treatment. Here I had three favorable results and one undecidedcase out of seven cases of cancer, following the use of the Gerson diet.

In New York I started the Gerson diet in cancer patients, 4¥2

yeaTrsh

ago.} . f h d" . . . d '1 'e evo uhon 0 t e IetetIc treatnlent IS gIven In etal In one

article published December 1945, and another one will be published

soon.The treatment is ineffective in cases with less .than 10 percent

lymphocytes in the differential bleod count when the phosphorouscannot 00 brought back into the red blood cells and other tissues; itis al8<> ineft"ectlve in patients with advanced liver damage, and, of

course, in those who are in extremis:Since the end of January 1946, I trent my patients in the Gotham

Hospital in New York, 90 percent of thenl without charge, and neverrefuse any patients, irrespective of t h ~ i r condition, in order to seewhat this treatment can do for them. Up to the present all practical

and r€'search work was financed by lnyself in cancer, as well a.s otherchronic diseases, including tuberculosis and I will not ask for money,here. This limits the progress of the method.

My experience leads me to believe that the liver is the center of the

restoration process in those patients who improve strikingly. I f theliver is too far destroyed, then the treatn1ent cannot be effective.

MY THEORY

Aware of the imperfection of this as well as any other theory, Ishall try, nevertheless, to explain the end results of the Gerson diet.I t. is condensed in three surpassing coInponents :

(1) The elimination of toxins and poisons and returning of the

displaced "extracellular" Na-group, connected with toxins, poisons,edema, destructive inflammation, from the tissues, tumors, and organswhere it d ~ s not b e l o n ~ , into the ~ r u m and tissues where it belongsgall bladder with bile ducts. connective tisslJe, thyroid, stomach

mucosa, kidney medulla, t u m o r s ~ and so forth.

(2) Bringing back the lost "intracellular" K-group combined withvitamins .. enzymes. ferments. sugar, and so forth, into the t i ~ s u e s andorgans where it belongs--liver, muscles. heart, brain. kidney cortex,and so forth--on this basis. iodine, ineffective before. is m n d ~ effective,

continuously added in new amounts.(3) R e s t o r i n ~ the differentiation. tonus, tension, oxidation, and soforth, by actiYated iodine, where there were before growing tumors



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and metatases with dediilerentiation, loss of tension, oxidation, loss ofresistance and healing power. .Mr. M.A1lxEL. Doctor, you want to file this Case History of Ten

Cancer Patients as a part of your statement. This is Dr. Gerson's.Senator PEPPER. .All right.(Dr. Gerson placed on file with the Committee a .document entitled

"Case History of, Ten Cancer Patients, Clinical Observations, Theoretical Conside;rations, and Summary.")Senator PEPPER.. Proceed.Dr. GERSON. I would like to show you a few of the patients.Senator PEPPER. All r i ~ h t ~ we would be ~ l a d to have them.Dr. GEBSON. This is Miss Alice Hirsch.(Dr. Gerson presented for the record the follow.ing operative

record:) NIIWAllK BETH Isa.u:L·Ho8PITAI.

Name: Alice Hirsch. A g ~ : 14. Date: October 15, 1945.Preoperative diagnosis: Spinal cord tumor.Surgeon: Dr. WilHam Ehrlich. ~ n - i c e of: Dr. William Elu·]lch.First assistant: Dr.. Wolfson. ~ h f l ' t i ! ' l t : Dr. ~ a r . Anesthesia: Endorra

chial Ether. Suture nurse: Miss Goldberg. .

Procedure: A. midline incision was made e x t e n d i u ~ fl·om the spine of C-7 to0-3. The spines and laminae of 1>-1 to D-3, were remoT'ed with rongeurs. Thedura did not p n l s a t ~ . On opening the dura the cord was found to be swollenawl had a yellow appearance. There Wf'1'e several tortuous varicosities on the

surface of the cord. On compressing the jugulars no fluid could be obtainedamI consequently, the laminectomy was extended upward in two stages untUthe spines amI laminae ot wbat are estimated to be C-4. C-5. 0-6, and 0-7wel·e also removed. H ~ l - e , too. the dur, was tense, and on opening i t the cordin this region had a ~ l i s t e n l n g reddisb-«ray appearance as if it was <.-omilletelyinfiltrated with gliomatous tissue.The cord bulged through the opening in the dura. Exploration laterally and

anteriorly was carriM out to be !mre we were not dealing with an antericwlyplaced extramedullary tnmor. A flne needle then was inserted into the midlineof the cord but no cystic fluid could be obtained. Inasmuch af( the patient hadfairly good motor power In the lower extl'(l'mities, it was not deemM advisableto incise the cord for biopsy.The dura m a t ~ r w a ~ left open for deeompre1'lsil"e purposes and ClOR\lre was

~ m p l e t e d m ; ; i n ~ internlptett No. 1 chromic c a t ~ t in ] a ~ · e r s for muscle andfasda and. interrnpted black sUk for s u ~ u t a n f l ' O u s U",sue and skin. 1he patientstood the prOCfl'dllre well and returned to her room in good· condition. PostJperatlve diagnosis: CeITical and upper thoracic intra'medullary glioma.Style of operation: Laminectomy, ( ~ - 5 to D-3.

Dr. GERRON. This original s t f t t ~ m e n t shows that this was a cervical"nd upper thoracic intrn.meduUary glioma., with an operation in the

S " e u r o l o ~ i c a l Institute, Columbia University. That is the only casenow at least arrested in 2,000 years of medical science. The patijm.twas operated, she being a ~ i r l 1 5 years old.(Dr. Gerson p r ~ s e n t e d as a witness before the subcommittee at this

ooint M i ~ s Alice Hirsch.. of Hillside. N. J.)Senator PEPPER. What i ~ Your name?Miss HIRRCTI. Alice Hir8Ch.Senator PEPPER. And what is vour a d d r ~ s sMiss HmRcH. 558 Sweetland Avenue, Hillside, N. J.Senator PEPPER. Are your parents living!



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(Dr. Gerson presented as witnesses before the su'beommittee at thispoint Mr. and Mrs. Leo Hirsch.)

Mr. MARKEL. That is the mother, Senator.Senator PEPPER. And what is your n a m e ~ Give your name to the

reporter, and your address.

Mrs. HIRSCH. Mrs. Hirsch, 558 Sweetland Avenue, Hillside.Senator PEPPER. And this is your husbandMr. HIRSCH. That is right. Leo. .Senator PEPPER. All right. Now, what did the little lady have?Dr. GERSON. She had intramedullary glioma. Glioma is a tumor of

the whole cerbral nervous system, it could be in the brain or in thespinal cord; and this was in the spinal cord. The tumor was here[indicating]. You can see they operated here, by the.scar. Theytook the bOnes out, here for inspection. They made a so-called lamI

nectomy. It came out here, where you see the long scar.Senator PEPPER. You made the operation'Dr. GERSON. No. I t was made in the Newark Beth Israel Hospital;

date, October 15, 1945.Senator PEPPER. That is where the operation occurred?Dr. GERSON. Yes. Here is the original operative record.Senator PEPPER. What did y ~ u d o ~Dr. GERSON. Then the phySICIans told the father:

We cannot do anything; it iB a tumor, and nobody can remove such 8 tumorfrom the spinal cord. She would die.

Senator PEPPER. Was that before the operation?Dr. GERSON. No. During the o ~ r a t i o n s the}: saw that the tumor

was in the spinal cord. I t was insIde-not outsIde. An extra-medullary tumor can be removed; so they operated to look into it and to seewhether it was extra or intra. 'Vhen they found it was an intra medullary tumor they could not do anything-closed and sent her home,and told the father, "Please make her as comfortable as possible; that

is all; we can do nothing else." That is all. So when she came tome, and we applied the treatment, and here [indicating], she had aparesis in the lower right ann; the process Involved especially thenervous ulnaris of the right hand and the right leg; she could notwalk much, these portions became more and more paralyzed, little bylittle increasing if the tumor grows. I t destroys the spinal cord andstimuli from the brain cannot be carried to the muscles which atrophy..

Senator PEPPER. And by your dietary treatment you cured thetumor!

Dr. GERSON. We killed the tumor, yes; otherwise, you can understand, the muscles could not have been restored· she can move nowthe hands and arms. Maybe there is a little bit of weakness left, here.Professor Howe was much interested in this extraordinary case.

Senator PEPPER.. You gave no treatment except your dietary treat-ment!

Dr. GERSON. She had some liver injections, too.Senator PEPPER. How long was she under your careY

Dr. GERSON. She is still now under my care.Senator PEPPER. How long ago was it she came to youDr. GERSON. The end of October.Senator PEPPER. Of last year



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Senator PEPPEL Is the statement that Dr. Gerson has made substantially correct

Mr. HIRSCH. Absolutely. She was to have been paralyzed by aroundDecember l - s h ~ was supposed to be, according to the other doctors.

Senator PEPPER. What was her condition when she went to Dr.

G e r s o n ~Mr. HIRSCH. Very, very weak.Dr. GF.BSON. She could not walk.Mr. HInSCH. We had to feed her by hand. We had to take her up

out of bed when she wanted to go anywhere, and she could not walkto any extent.

Senator PEllf'ER. Could you see the tumor)fr. HIRSCH. No.Dr. GERSON. No.

Senator PEPPER. It was inside; was itDr. GERSON. Only by the operation it is visible.Senator PEPPER. Did the doctors who operated at this Newark Beth

Israel Hospital tell you they could do nothing about the tumorMr. HIRSCH. That is right.Senator PEPPER. And that there was a tumor in t.he spine1Mr. HIRSCH. We knew before the operation that there was a tumor

in the spine, and before the operation it was almost impossible to doanything for her.

Senator PEPPER. Is this a true copy of the report of the NewarkBethIsrael Hospital about the operation and all ?

Mr. HIRSCH. That is right. That is from theBeth Israel.Senator PEPPER. Would you like to leave a copy of this for the

record!Dr. GERSON. I have presented that for the record.Senator PEPPER. Now, another witness, Dr. Gerson!Dr. GERSON. Yes, sir; Mr. Gimson.(Dr. Gerson presented as witnesses before the subcommittee at this

point Mr. George Gimson.)Senator Puna. Dr. Miley, do you know also about these cases'Dr. MILEY. Yes. I have seen all these cases many times. I have

been watching it for the last 6 to 8 months, depending on how longthey have been in there.

Senator PEPPER. Your name is Dr. George Miley, of Gotham Hos-pital, New York!Dr. MILEY•. That is correct.Senator PEPPER. What is your own home address in New York'

Dr. ~ { I I ..EY. 820 Park Avenue.Senator PEPPER. And what is the address of Gotham Hospital'Dr. MILEY. 30 East Seventy-sixth Street.Senator PEPPER. Who is the head of that hospital1Dr. MILEY.' I am.Senator PEPPER. How many beds do you have'Dr. MU..EY. Approximately 85 beds.Renator PEPPER. Is it a privately owned hospital'Dr. MU,EY. It is a hospital owned by a private foundation-the

Robinson Foundation-at present.Selultor PEPPER. Is it a member of any hospital association1



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Dr. MILEY. It is a menlber of the Private Hospital Association andthe American Hospital Association.Senator PEPPER. I t is a member of the .A.merican Hospital Associa-

tionDr. MILEY. Yes, sir.

Senator PEPPER. In good standing'Dr. ~ I I L E Y . Yes, sir. Well, we think so !

S e n a t ~ r PEPPER. I just wanted the record to show whether it was aproperly accredited hospital.Dr. MILEY. Yes.

~ l r . MARKEL. Dr. Miley will file for t h ~ record a statement.Senator PEPPER. Did you know about the case of Miss Hirsch, who

was here, beforeDr. MII..EY. Yes. We had a neurological consultation on Miss

Hirsch, since I saw her, because I felt I was not a capable enoughneurologist to make any decision whatever on Miss HIrsch's. condition, and we had Dr. Hubert Howe, of the Neurological Institute, seeher. and we had her, the last few months, and I have a staten1ent hereby Dr. Howe in relation to several patients that he has seen at Dr.Gerson's.Senator PEPPER. Are you a medical doctorDr. }tIILEY. Yes.Senator PEPPER. From what-school did you graudate1Dr. MILEY. Northwestern University Medical School.Senator PEPPER. Are you a member of the American Medical Asso

ciation?Dr. }fILEY. Yes; a fellow of the Alneriean Medical Association, the

Nat-ional Gastroenterological Association, the American Rheumatism Association, the Philadelphia Physiological Association. the NewYork and Philadelphia County ~ I e d i c a l Societies, and the New Yorkand Pennsylvania State Medical Associations.Senator PEPPER. And is it your. opinion as a doctor that the cure,

or the apparent cure, or improvement in the condition of Miss Hirschwhich you witnessed, is due to the treatment that Dr. Gerson gaveher?Dr. MILEY. Well, I cannot see anything else to account for it . I t

is the only change in rQutine which she has had at all. If it were anisolated case you .would say, "Well, mu.ybe she was going to get better, anyway!" But if she had died, as apparently everybody whosaw her thought she was E o i n ~ to die, everyone would have sajd, "Well,

you see what happened!" But taking it along with quite a fewother cases--and it is getting to be too much-it is no longer acoincidence. There are a good many people walking -around thatshould be dead.

Senator PEPPER. Let us take the next case, here.What is your nanleMr. GIMSON. George Gimson.Senator PEPPER. Where do you live?Mr. G I M ~ O N . 729 Thirty-second street, Union City, N. J.

Senator PErPER. Dr. Gerson, tell us about! I r .

Gimsoll.(Dr. Gerson presented for the record the following letter:)



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VETERANS' A D ~ . l I N I 8 T B - l T I O N ,Lyons, N. J., Novcmbf',r 26, 1946.

Dr, MAX GERSON,

New York, N. Y.

DEAB Docroll: In complianre with a request from the above-named veteranwe are submitting the following information.

First symptoms of present illness were present about l\Iay 1944. First symptoms in the Army since induction. First Army hospitalization was RegionalHospital, Fort RUey, Kan., August 28, 1944, treament above.Examination is not remarkable except fDr a f reshly healed sent, anterior

triangle, abont 6 centimeters in length. Above and anterior to the scar is anarea of anesthesia going well up into the scalp, including the entire tinna ofthe ear, following the nerve distribution of the greater aur icular anel of smalleroccipital nerve. This scar is 90 recent it cannot be decided whether there istumor tissue remaining in the scar or whether it is simple fibroblastic tissueas a result of the operation. But there is thickpning along the entire lengthof the incbdon. There is no evidence of any other cervical adenopathy nor

are there any occipital glands that could be palpated. Thet'e is nothing in theItUprkclavicular region either, No evidence of recurrenc'e was noted .on physical examlnation. It was a Uttle bit difficult to determine whether the induration was due to postoperative reaction or ~ m e remaining tumor. However.review of the entire block of tissue removed, ShDWS that h i s t o l o ~ i c a l l r themalignant areas have been remon.'d completely. Orthopedic examination reveals patient evidences extreme pain on all body motions even remotely relatedto the back. All back motion is limited by pain. Straight leg raising produces lumbar pain, Obers sign is positive, prone thrust prDduces pain referredto the turnbo-sacral region. All naftexes are normal. X-ray taken October 10,1944, shows cervical spine in nOrDUll alinement and shows no bony nbnormality.exeept a spina bifida occulta of the seventh cel'Vical seJ;ment.

. Treatment here consisted of extensh·e pyhsiotherapy to back, dressings tothe neck, and heat treatment to right ear.

Condition on completion of case: 1. Unimproved. 2. Cured. Db;posltionrecommended: Since this pat ient 's hospitalization he. has complained of lowback pain. He bas been given an extensive course of physiotherapy with nosigns of improvement. In view of these llndings, a eDD discharge is recom·mended.Maximum hospital benefits have been attained. No. 1 diagnosis is considered

to be permanent. No.2. Not permanent.Diagnosis: 1. Strain, ligamentous, lumbosacral, moderately severe, secondary

to injury incurred in fall, April 1943, Federal Shipbuilding & Drydock Co.,Kearny, N. J,

2. Carcinoma, bual cell, *111 back of right neck, of hair-follicle origin andprecursor of. rodent ulcer. ,It is understood that tbJa information Is strictly conJIdentlal and not to be

released to any other party.Very truly yours,

R. C. FAGLEY,

1I(1Jor, Medical Oorps, Ohief Medical Officer.

Dr. GERSON. Mr. Gimson came with a big tumor that was arrested.He was operated first when he was a soldier and was in camp.

Mr. GIMSON. Fort Riley, Kans.Dr. GERsON. And then they operated, but they could not remove

the basal cell carcinoma, because it was grown up into the skull, so theysent him for deep X-ray therapy to another hospital.

Mr. GI:MSON. Fitzsimmons, Denver, Colo.Dr. GERSON. He was sent to Fitzsimmons Hospital, at Denver,

Colo., for deep X-ray therapy, but there they decided that deep X-ray

therapy is very dangerous tot h ~

brain, and the specialists there refused.Mr. GIl\fSON. They did not give me any treatment at all, so theydischarged me.



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the whole face was swollen. here [indicating]. His left eye was entirely closed, here; he could see very little with the right one.

~ { r . GIMSON. Thjs one is still swollen. You can see the crack.Dr. GERSON. And I sent the case also to Professor Howe, the

neuroloO'ist, and he saw, it was growing into the brain, and there

[indicating], and all these disturbances; and I have some X-raysand all other things, there, but I do not know :whether to put thenlon the table; and there is another [indicating].

Senator PEPPER. Go ahead. He came to you?Dr. GERSON. Yes.SenatOl' PEPPI:R• .He came to you, and you treated him 1Dr. G E R S O ~ . Yes.Senator PEPPER. And you applied your diet

Dr. GERSON. Yes.

Senator PEPPER. And did you give him any liver injections tDr. GF..RSON. Yes, daily; at home. I think his wife gave them to

him.~ { r . G U f ~ O X . Yes; that is right.Senator PJ<:PPER. And what is this, thut you have here?

Dr. GERSON. That is from the Veterans' Administration, the

o r i ~ i n a l .Senator PEPPER. This is a letter that purports to be from the Vet

erans' Administration, at Lyons, N. J., dated November 26, 1945,

addressed to Dr. Gerson, and signed by R. C. Fagley, Major, MC,Chief Medical Officer. I t purports to relate to George J. Gimson,C-44V1792. That is the serial number, and the letter purports toee a report to Dr. Gerson about Mr. Gimson's' illness.Now, !{r. Gimson, you tell us about your case. What was your

condition, and what treatment did you get from the Army¥ 'Whendid you go to Dr. Gerson, an.;! what did he do And what reliefhave you had

Mr. GIMSON. I went to Fort Riley, Kans., and I had something

like an i n ~ o w n hair, you might say, on my neck.Senator PEPPER. Will you speak louder, please'

Mr. GIHSON. I went down to the hospital, and the doctor, themajor, looked at me, and he told me, "Have it oft- i t wQUldn't take

long," and I could be back with the troop, and I wouldIl't lose anyt i m ~ , 1 would be back in a day or two.

Senator PEPPER. How long were you oft'!Mr. GDISON. I was off 4 ~ or 5 months. Two days I had march

ing-to keep us busy, out of trouble. Then I went to the hospital.Down there they told me I would be back with the troop in 2 or 3days. I went down and had the operation, the next morning, andI wound up in bed, and I could not move my head or anyth ing

pulled away over on the side. They came in for .inspection. Thiscaptain came in one morninp: and told me it was about time I hadmy head straig-htened out. I told him I could not move lny head,

'because from the operation it pulled me all over on the s i d e ~ so hejust straightened it up-and he opened it all up again; and whenhe ripped it open like that, I told him, "1 can't feel anything; I can'thear anything." so he looked at me, and he checked me, alld he gaveme an examination; then he told me, "We are going to send you," he



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says, "to Fitzsimmons. Denver, Hospital." I asked him, "'Vhyshould I go thereY Why couldn't I go east?" He said, "'Vell, wehaven't got the right equipment, here. for what. your trouble is, sowe are going to send you out there."Senator PEPPBR. Where were youMr. GIMSON. I was in the regional hospital in Kansas; and frOll1

Kansas they shipped me out to Denver, Colo., to Fitzsimmons, andwhen I went to Fitzsimmons·they gave me an examination and tooka hypodermic needle and stuck me in the head with it to see if my

f e e l i n ~ was there, so I did not have any f e e l i n ~ whatsoever, andthey were going to give me this deep X-ray therapy. andthey didnot give me any. I put in for a Christmas furlough. and t l l i l t wasrefused to me, so then they gave me a discharge the following week,and when I came home the tumor was coming up. Half my whiteshirt is all worn on one side from where this tumor'swelled up be

hil].d my ear, here, where the scar was. I t had started to come upagain, so I went to the Red Cross about it, and I told theln I conldnot sleep at nigl;1ts, and I had pains; I could not even do a day'swork. I would have. to quit 3R Roon aR I put any pressurp on my~ l f ; so she sent me down to Lyons, N. J.; so I went down t h e r ~ , andthey told me they had lost all my papers and records. I guess theydid not want to t ~ 1 l me what was wrong; so they told DIe the onlything they could do for me was to send ·me to the Bronx, N. Y., and~ t a specimen; so I asked them, "You mean a specimen by operation ,,, He says, "Yes." I says, "There is no more operating on

Ine," and I refused all operation; so I came home, and my wife toldIne I was going over to see Dr. ~ r s o n .Dr. GERSON. Why did you refuse an operation'Mr. GrMSQN. Well, they did not do me any good the first tinle, .and

my condition was worse; so I went over to Dr. Gerson, and he gaveme this book, and that is what I am to do. There is no tunlOr. I canhear a lot in it. .

Senator PEPPER. Now, tell us this: Did you stay in the GothamHospital for any length of time

Mr. GIMSON. No.Dr. GERSON. That was before, before the Gotham Hospital was

established.Senator PEPPER. He gave yon this book, to tell you what to eat

and what not to eat .Mr. GnlsoN. Yes; what to eat. and what to drink, and everything.Senator PEPPER. And yon went by this diet? .Mr. GIMSON. "Whatever is in that book. that is what I took.Senator ,PEPPER. And you followed strictly this diet?

Mr. G I ~ I 8 0 N . 100 percent. I gave awav nlY last pack of cigarettesjust before I went up to his officp, and f1:0111 that day to this I neversmoked a cigarette.Senator PEPPER. You quit Slnoking?Mr. GIMSON. I quit slnoking and drinking, too. Last night I was

best man at my brother's wedding', and I eouldn't even drink.

Senator PEPPER. How long, now, did yon take this diet before youbegan to nQtice any improvement in your condition?

~ I r . GUiSON. Well, I wonld Ray about, oh, a nl0nth, 2 months, anlonth'and a half to 6 weeks.



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Senator PEPPF.H. You took no medicine, or had no other treatment1! Ir. GIMSON. No. Liley's injection-that is, liver.Dr. GERSON. Liver injections.

~ { r . GU(sox. Liver injections. Everything I am supposed to take

and eat and everything is right there rreferring to the little book].

Dr. GERS(jN. Here is the medication book.Senator PEPPER. You mean the liver injectionDr. GERSON. Yes; 2 cc. codliver extraction, Liley" No. 352.Senator PEPPER. That is a liver extract1Dr. GERSOK. Yes.Senator PEPPER. You inject that into the liver?Dr. GERSON. Intramuscular-not into the liver, into the muscle.Senator PEPPER. S? you are s a ~ i s f i e d the t r e t ~ t m e n t D r . _ ~ e ' ! " 8 0 n gave

you has been responslble for the lmprovement ln your condItion?.. Mr. G I M ~ N . Every bit of it.Senator PEPPER. All right. Thank you.~ f r . MARKEL. May I ask Dr. l\filey to talk about this case!Senator PEPPER. Dr. Miley.Dr. Mrr:.Ey. I saw this patient when he had already recovered to a

great extent. I saw him after he had been undei the treatment practically 3 or 4: months. I have been watching him, seeing him oncea month, since. There is no sign of recurrence, certainly, and thisparticular l'atient has had a lapse. est.ablishing it as a basal car

cinoma" whIch is sometimes inimical to other treatments, but usuallywhen it involves the bone as it did in this case it has gone prettyfar. He had actnal bone involvement, and apparently there are no

s i ~ s of that at present.Senator PEPPER. Was the tumor that he had what we call a real

tumor!Dr. MILEY. Yes; it was a tumor, starting with a hair follicle.Senator PEPPER. Was it m a l i g n a n t ~Dr. HERSON. Yes.

Dr. MILn. Yes.Senatpr PEPPER. Was the tumor that the little lady, Miss Hirsch,bad, a malignant tumor!Dr. MILEY. It is a diffused ItliOIDa, which is somewhat different.

I t comes out of connective tissue and it produces most of its ill effects by actual senr tissue from the glioma sUITounding the nervous

t ~ u e in the spinal cord itself.S ~ n a t o r PEl'PER. Thank you, ~ { r . Gimson. We appreciate your

comIng.

Mr. MABKEL. Who is your nenw i t n e s s ~

Dr. GmsoN. Mrs. Anna Hanna.(Dr. Gerson presented as a witness before the subcommittee, at

this point, Mrs. Anna V. Hanna.)Senator PEPPER. ...t\.ll right, Doctor. Tell us about ~ [ r s . Hanna's

case.Dr. GERSON. In the University of Pennsylvania, an operation was

performed on the patient. We found-I read this original, here-

an e x t e n ~ i v e carcinoma just above the rectosigmoid with infiltration of themesen ta ry of the rectosigmoid and descending colon. The growth was nrlher·ent to the vena cav-a and both iliac vessels, and there were suspicious nodulesin the liv-er.



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~ a u s e of the metasta tic involvement, resection of this growth W8S bu-

possible. I took a specimen for biopsy which proved to be adenocarcinoma.Operative procedure consisted of a permanent colostomy.

That was sent to me, here. That is an original letter that wasfirst sent to another doctor, Dr. Jules Vogel, and it was sent to me.

Senator PEPPER. The letter to which you have referred is the letter from Dr. Thomas A. Shallow, 1611 Spruce Street, Philadelphia3, Pa., and the first letter was dated April 23. 1945. That is the letter to Dr. Vogel. The other letter. is a letter dated June 24, 1946,from Dr. Shallow to Dr. Gerson, enclosing a copy of the letter toDr. Vogel of April 23.

Now, was that a malignant growthYDr. GERSON. Y e ~ r c i n o m a . When the lady came !he was in .a

terrible condition. She could not eat, and her stool came here rin

lHcating]. Now, the treatment closed the permanent eolostomy. Thephysicians thought it would be always t.here, but nature even closedthe permanent colostomy, and now her stool goes through the anus,as the tumor is entirely absorbed. We have wonderful X-rays. Ihave them here, but to' have not shown them. The patient gainedweight and is in good condition.

Senator PEPPER. Mrs. Hanna, will yon give us your full name andaddress, please.

Mrs. HANNA. Mrs. Anna V. Hanna, 381 Virginia Avenue, Manoa,Upper Darby, Pa.

Senator PEPPER. Is what Dr. Gerson has said substantially 8. statement of your case

Mrs. HANNA. Y e s ~ sir; absolutely.Senator PEPPE& Did YO\1 take any treatment except the treatment

that Dr. Gerson ~ a v e you ,Mrs. HANNA. No, SIr; not any; and they certainly came down and

told my daughter there was absolutely nothing they could do, she wasfree to consult anybody she wanted.

Senator PEPPER. What doctors did you consult, by the way, aboutyour condition, before you went to Dr. Gerson j

Dr. GERSON. The daughter can c o m e ~Senator PEPPER. What doctors did you consult Did you consult

Dr. Shallow, here I "Mrs. HANNA. As soon as I came out of the hosp i t a l -Senator PEPPER. No, I mean before you went to Dr. Gerson.Mrs. HANNA. Oh.

Senator PEPPER. Who told you'Dr. GERSON. Miss Alice:M. Hanna, the daughter, went to Dr. Vogel,first. He is the family physician.

Senator PEPPER. GIve us your name and address, please.Miss HANNA. Miss Alice M. Hanna, 331 Virginia Avenue, Manoa,

Pa.

Senator PEPPER. And you are the daughter of Mrs. Hanna!Miss HANNA. That is right.Senator PEPPER. Will you just tell us a little bit about yopr mot.her's

case-what doctors she went to, and what they told herMiss HANNA. First she went to Dr. Vogel.Senator PEPPER. Dr. J ules Vogel



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Senator PEPPER. In Brookline?Miss HANNA. That is right; Brookline, Pa.Senator PEPPER. 250 Brookline Boulevard, Brookline, DeLMiss HANNA. Delaware County, Pa.Senator PEPPER. I t is Brookline, Delaware County, Pa.

Miss H. \NNA. That is right. And he was suspicious of a tumor inthe colon, and possibly cancerous, he said, from his examination; sohe sent her to the FitzgeraldMercy Hospital, in Darby. Pa., for X-raypictures. These X-rays confirmed his SuspicIOns. and he sent her toDr. Thomas A. Shallow, a surgeon, of Philadelphia.

Senator PEIJPER. Of 1611 Spruce Street, Philadelphia, Pa.!Miss HANNA . That is right. Dr. Sha.llow placed her in Jefferson

Hospital in Philadelphia for examination and treatment, and after 8days of examination and some treatment to build her up he operated

on her with the hope that he could remove the t tunor; but during theoperation he realized that it had ~ o w n so extensively and attacked

~ o mallJ organs that i t was inlpossible to remove it: so he performed acolostomy to afford her temporary relief, and the report that he gaveto me was that she might live 6 months, she might live 2 years-he<,ould not predict the tilne, and it was very definite that she would nothvp very long. That operation took place on April If), 1945.

Senator PEPPER. At what hospital'~ { i s s H, \XXA. Jefferson Hospital.

Senator PEPPER. Philadelphia'Afiss l l iNXA. Philadelphia.Mr. ~ f n ~ E Y . That is a correction. Dr. G e r s o ~ said "University of

Pennsylvania," at the beginning. I t was Jefferson Hospital.Dr. GERSON. Is it not1Dr. MILEY. Jefferson Hospital.}fiss H A N ~ A . Jefferson Hospital. So while mother was still in the

hospital, a Wrl in IllY office who happens to be a fri.end of Mrs. Fleming,another patient who is here today, told me of Dr. Gerson, and I got

in touch with Dr. Gerson, and he said that he thought that perhaps heeould do something for her, but she had to remain in the hospital for2 w e e k ~ or for 5 weeks, and she developed pleurisy and different diffi.-c:ulties. and it was possibly 2 months following the operation beforeI could bring her to New York to see Dr. Gerson, and he gave her theJ p ~ n l a r Gerson diet.

Senator PEPPER. Did she go to the Gotham Hospital !Miss HANNA. No, she did not, Senator.Dr. GER80N. This was before.

~ I i s s HANNA .

This was before. .And we have been going-first. wehad to !!O in 2 weeks, and since then we have been going once a monthto sef ' Dr. Gerson.

Senator PEPPER. You took her to him, and he saw herMiss H . \NNA. That is right.&nator PEPPER. And he then prescribed his d i e t ~ and then you took

her back homeJ.liss HANNA . That is right.Senator PEPPER. And she followed the diet at home

~ f i s s HANNA .

That is right.Senator PEPPER. You live with your mother?Miss HANNA . Yes, sir.



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Senator PEPPER. And then you took her back every 2 weeks fora t i m e ~Miss HANNA. For a time.Dr. GERSON. The first time.Senator PEPPER. And later on'Dr. GERSON. Once & month.Senator PEPPER. Did you notice; did your mother begin to improve

in l l f ~ a J th ,~ I i s s HANNA . AlmOst immediately; and at the end of 5 weeks I

bejieve X-ray pictures show that the tumor was almost completelygone.Senator PEPPEa. You went back to doctors and got X-rays, and

tbEly reported'Miss HANNA. Dr. Gerson takes X-rays, and during all this time she

has been under the constunt surveillance of Dr. Vogel. and he is very

much impressed and thrilled with her response. He says he hasnever witnessed a n y t h i ~ like it.Senator PEPPER. And she has had no other treatInent that you attri

bute her recovery to exceptDr. Gerson's tren.tnumtMiss HANNA. Absolutely none.Senator PEPPER. All right. Thank you very llluch. 'Vhere do you

work'Miss l IANNA. I work for the IndiaCo., 1740Cherry Street, Philadel

phia 3, Pa.

Dr. GERSON. I sent the patient back to Professor Reimann to see her,and sent her back to Jefferson Hospital, and the physicians were soimpressed that they demollstrated her to the other students, and evencalled the case (I wouldn't do it) "cured"-as a cured cuse. She was

demonstrated by Dr. Engel.Miss HANNA. That is right. Dr. Bucher, pathologist at the hos-

pital, presented her to the Jefferson Hospital medi('al student body.Senator PEPFElL Dr. BucherMiss HANNA. Dr. Bucher. He is the pathologist.Senator PEPPER. At the Jefferson Hospital, he exhibited her to the

s t u d e n t s ~Miss HANNA. Yes, sir.Dr. GERSON. Dr. Miley.Mr. MILEr. Doct.or, I have not examined ~ f r s . Hanna recently, but

Dr. Reimann and Dr. Kilingle, of Philadelphia, examined her andcould find no evidence of a sigmoidostomy of allJ kind, nor of theoriginal gr<>wth.Senator PEPPEB. W llS your mother ahie to walk around when she

went to Dr. Gerson!Afiss HANNA. Just a l it tle bit, Senator. She was practically laid

down in a bed in the back of the car to make the first trip, entirely.She did manage to walk upstairs once or twice a day.Senator PEPPER. Thank you very m u c h ~ and thank you, Mrs. Hanna,

for coming and giving us your statement.AU right. Now, who is next!Dr. GERSON. Mrs. Fleming.Senator PEP]»ER. Go right ahead.Dr. GEnSON. ~ I r s . Fleming had a IJnlphatic sarCODla. She had ter

ribly big tumors here, in the a b d O l n ~ J l ~ glands all over the body, neck,



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axilla, both groins. two big tumors from rebro peritoneal glands"here,and mesenteric glands; and one tunlOr was removed, there. BIOPSYwas made by Dr. Gensbe rg -Mr. FLEMING. No.Dr. GERSON. And slides were sent to two other hospitals, to Dr. Stu

art, in New York, and another professor, I think Yale, and all three decided that it is a myelQIlla, more specifically a plasmac.ytoma, a kindof a very bad malignant tumor. .

Mrs. FLE:HINO. Dr. Averett removed it.Dr. GERSON. Yes; he removed a piece for biopsy, and the others

examined it..Senator PEPPER. Now, let us get Mrs. Fleming. What is your

name!Mrs. FLEXING. Katherine Fleming.

Senatol\ PEPPER. And where do you live!Mrs. FLEXING. 301 West Mentor, Olney, Philadelphia.

Senator PEPPER. Will you just tell us what your condition wasbefore. you went to Dr. Gerson-and this is Miss or Mrs.Mrs. "FLEMING. Mrs.Senator PEPPER. Mrs. Fleming.Mrs. FLEMING. I started several years before, ~ o i n g around from

doctor to doctor, and nobody seemed to know what was wrong.Senator PEPPER. And who told you you had a malignant tumor!

Mrs. FLEMING. Dr. Leonard Averett, who operated the specimen.Senator PEPPER. And where did he operate

Mrs. FLEMING. In the Northern Liberties Hospital,Twenty-firstand Spruce.

Senator PEPPEl(. Twenty-first and Spruce Streets, Philadelphia'llrs. FLEMING. Philadelphia.Senator PEPPER. And he operated on you!Mrs. FLEMING. Yes.Senator PEPPER. And he told you that you had a malignant t u m o r ~~ : I r s . FLEMING. He did not tell me. He told my people.Senator PEPPER. He told your people that you had a malignant

tumor! All right; go ahead, now.Mrs. FLE3IING. So after I came out of the hospital he ordered

X-roy treatments. I took 15 of those" and quit work and so thenhe discharged me and told my people there was nothing; nlore couldbe done, it W ~ l S just a matter of time: and I went from 165 pounds to130 pounds .. and then they took me to Dr. Gerson.

Senator PEPPER. When did you ~ o to Dr. Gerson

Mrs. FLEMlXG. }Iay" 2 years ago.Senator PEPl'ER. And.Dr. Gerson gave you his Gerson diet!M r s ~ FLEMING. Yes, SIr.Senator PEPPER. And did he give you any liver injections'Mrs. FLEMING. Yes, sir.S(lnator PEPPER. Did he give you any other treatmentMrs. FLEMING. Just the vitamins.Senator PEPPER. And vitUlnins 1 And so, have you had an ex

amination lately1 You consider yourhelf cured, now

~ f r s . FLE1\UNG. I was examined by Dr. Averett, January, a yearago, and he said I had.no signs of ever having it.

Senator PEPPER. You cOllsider yourself c.ured1



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Mrs. FLEKING. I think so.Senator PEPPER. And you attribute your cure to the t r e a t m ~ n t

that Dr. Gerson ga.ve you j

Mrs. FLEKING. Nothing else; positively.Dr. GERSON. Her leg was terribly swollen.

lIrs.FLEMING.

My leg was like that.Dr. GERSON. The left leg.Mrs. FLEMING. The right leg.Dr. GERSON. Tumor masses pressed on the vena cava, and this

was blue and terribly swollen, the leg, so she could hardly walk.Now, something else happened. The case is interesting in several

other respects. I will make it very short. When the patient was oneyear under my treatment, because the ovaries were killed for treatment reasons, she had terrible f l a r e - u p s ~ menopause reactions, perspira

tion and heart palpitationo.nd

these so-called flare-ups; so I tried togive her an ovary substance; immediately, the ovarian substancebrought the tumors back. Thatis one of these cases where I have nowseen that. . Immediately, the tumors start to grow. Now, at thattime, I found when I gave a little bit of iodine before, you see, I coulddestroy the tumor so that they cannot more grow. I gave her then for5 months LUgo!'s solution, and after this I tr ied again to give herdifferent substances to see whether t h ~ tumors will regrow again.Nothing happened.. I gave her fats, and with fats also I could bring

the tumors tor e ~ w ;

but now, even, we, as physicians, are able tobring the tumors back; they can regrow, but we are able to suppressthe tumors; when we give in addition to the treatment a little bit ofiodine-nothing can happen again. No tumors can regrow again.

The first case in this respect, where I made all these experiments, isa next patient, Mrs. Beatrice Sharpe. This is the second, then camea third; and from now on I knew a little bit of iodine has to be addedbut the individuals react differently, and that has to be worked outscientifically.

Mr. MARKEL. Ask Dr. Miley if he is familiar with this case.Senator PEPPER. Do you know about this patientDr. MILEY. I sent this case to Dr. Gerson, as a test, because a couple

of :r.ears ago-he had made this statement to myself and to Dr. CharlesBailey, of Philadelphia, an outstanding chest surgeon, there, and hewas in Seaview and New York. I went over to see his tuberculosiscases, and some of his results were very, very remarkable. He hadseveral bronchial chest fistulas which had healed up, which had norig-ht to heal, and he had mentioned at that time the possibility of

using this in malignant disease. Both Dr. Bailey and I smiled skeptically, thinkinp; it was rather fanta.c;;tic; so I picked out the worstcase I could find and sent him one, which happened to be Mrs. Fleming; and much to my surprise she improved. She was supposed tolive 3 to 5 months, approxImately, Rnd instead, she is still here. Thetumors have at least palpably disappeared; they may reappear, butat least there is no evidence now, so far as she is concerned. She hasput on very many pounds.

Dr. GF..R80N. Twenty pounds.

Dr. MILEy. Her sister is giving constant reports, and she says shecontinued to improve and she has remained improved, and it is 2years now since that. occurred. Certainly, something should have



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happened by now if it were going to. We do not know-we are stillwatching it. She has a 2-year improvement, at least.Senator PEPPER. Thank you very much for cOining, Mrs. Fleming.Now, Doctor, have .you another '4Mr. MARKEL.

Yes.Dr. GERSON. Mrs. Beatrice Sharpe.Senator PEPPER. Have a seat. How do you do 1Mrs. SHARPE. How do you do 1 .Senator PEPPER. Now, Doctor, let us get the lady's name.Mrs. SHARPE. Mrs. Beatrice Sharpe.Senator PUPER. And your addressMrs. SHARPE. 135-53 Two hundred and Thirtieth street, Laurelton,

Long Island. -

DrA E ~ N .

The patient was first operated 3 years ago.. ~ { I ' s . SHARPE. 1940.Dr. GERSON. 194o-now 6 years ago. Where was itMrs. SHARPE. In Jersey City.Dr. GERSOX. Jersey City And 2 years later she had a r e ~ u r r e n c e

on the breast, left breast operation, the breast was reuloved, but howmuch later-2 years, a b o u t ~lfrs. SHARPE. Well, about 1941 I had a recurrence.Dr. GERSON. You were atMemorial Hospital

Mrs. SHARPE. Memorial Hospital, yes; taking treatments. In 1942I had to go back and hud more radium treatments. In 1943 I hadX-ray treatments, and in 1944 they told me I couldn't take any moretreatments, and that was all they could do for me.Dr. GERSON. They sent her home.Senator PEPPER, Now, I have here in my hand what purports to be

a letter written from Memorial Hospital for the treatment of cancerand allied diseases, dated September 21, 1944, and it reads:

At the request of: Dr. Max Gerson, 667 Madison Avenue, New York, N. Y.

Name of patient: Beatrice Sharp. Address: 1.35-53 Two Hundred and ThirtiethStreet, Laurelton, Long Island.Admitted; To O. P. D. September 8, 1941. Discharged: - - Diagnosis: Recurrent inoperable carcinoma of left breast.Remarks: Patient first e:otumined in breast clinic on. September 8, 1 9 4 ~ at

which time i t was noted that she had no local recurrence but hud bulky leftsupraclavicUlar mass. This was treated with radium element pack in September1941, patient having received 60,000 mghrs-8,OOO mghrs having been given eyeryother day, with exceUent regression of mass. Node discovered in left cervicalregion in September 1942. This was also treated with radium element pack fora total pf 64,000 mghrs with complete regreSsion of disease.

What is the 6 4 ~ O O O - m i l l i g r a l ! l hours!Dr. GERSON. No; a unit of measurenlent.Senator PEPPER (continuing).

Disease remained quiescent until July 1943, when patient developed multipleskin nodules over left chest wall in region of sear and medial to it . Low v o l t a ~ eX-ray therapy given to these regions, patient having received 1,500 r (500 r X3)to left chest wall anterior and left chest wall lateral. At completion of this cycletwo additional treatments (400 r X 2) were given to left chest wall anterior,remained under control until July 1944, when it was noted coming active aswell as the mass in the cervical area. I t was felt that these areas could not betreated because of proximity to previously irradiated skin.Last known condition :---

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D ~ . GERSON. In the photos of X-rays you can see the big nodules,and It was here, at the upper half of the lung, and here, at the su{>raclavicular glands where the big nodules were. They disappeared In ashort time. In a few cases these nodules and the tumor pain disaPl?ear,but it was not so in this case, because here some of the pain resIstedand she had also, because the ovaries were killed for treatment reasons,these terrible menopause reactions; so I finally, with all these pains,and she could not stand more the pain, finally I started to give her alittle bit, but only one tablet of ovarian 8ubstance-5-grain, one a day,instead of giving three or four, which is usual; one tablet given for3 weeks, and all cancer masses came back; but not any this time,here. We find here it was the left side, but also on the other side.Now, they came back, with a litt le bit of ovarian substance. Here, allcame back-also on the other side-not only here. You can see here, onthe other side all glands came back, not only more cancer masses onthe left side, they are also o ~ the right. I applied again the firsttreatment. All glands disappeared in 3 weeks, when nothing morewas left. Then I ~ v e her Iodine for 6 weeks, and then we gave heragain, all ovarian substances we have; we gave her double amounts-three times the amount.We gave her, in addition, stilbesbrol; we gave her, in addition, pre

marin-nothing came back. Then we gave her cancer activating (carcinogen) substances, and I have many other cases where I could acti

vate cancer with certain substances. Then could nlake all disappear.Then we gave her a raw egg yolk. We know this egg yolk wascarinogen too. I killed three patients, when I gave them a little bit of

e ~ g yolk:, half an egg yolk a day, but the poor boy had to die for this.You see, when that had disappeared, in a few cases it could not be, itdid not respond a second or a third time to the treatment.Now, I gave one ounce. of egg substance, and .. second, the butter,

and third, egg yolks-nothing came-nothing. No more apparentlycan grow any more. That was the first case where these experiments

were made.Senator PErna. That- was not m a l i ~ a n t ' The meaning of that

letter is that this is a m a l ~ t growtliDr. GEBSON_ A regrowmg. .And now, all pain is gone here in

the arm.Mrs. SHARPE. Yes.Dr. GERSON. And all other, and the menopause reactions are gone,

and now you can do it.Senator PEPPER. Mrs. Sharpe, you just tell us about :your case, will

you' What happened to you after you went to Dr. Gerson' -Tellus about his treatment.Mrs. SHARPE. In 1940 I had a mastectomy, and in 19.f'l I went back

and I had this recurrence in my neck, and I was sent over to MemorialHospital for treatments. In 1942 I had to go back, and in 1943 and

~ 9 4 4 there was n o ~ more they could do for me, so I heard of Dr.Herson, through a chiropractor. He gave me Dr. Gerson's name, andI thought I had nothing to lose, so I went to Dr. Gerson's, and in 3weeks' time on the treatment the mass started to disappear. Mv head

was stiff. I could not move my neck.Senator PRPE'R. You had what-a tumor of the neck'Mrs. SHARPE. Yea.



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Senator PEPPER. You had a big twnor that stuck out here on your

n e c k ~}Irs. SHARPE. Yes.Senator PF.PPER. And after 3 weekc; of Dr. Gerson's treatment it

start..ed to disappear'Mrs. SH"'RPE. Yes.Senator PEPPER. And it finally has subsided entirely

~ I r s . SHARPE. Oh. yes.S ~ n a t o r PEPPER. And you have no Inore of the· symptoms¥

~ f r s . SHARPE. And I am going to business all the time.Dr. GERSON. She did not lose one working day. Most of my pa

tients, they do not lose even one working day; they continue to work.Senator PEpPlm. You attribute the recovery entirely to the treat-

lllent that you received from Dr. Gerson1~ f r s . SHARPE. Oh. absolutely.

Mr. MARKEL. Dr. ~ I i l e y .Senator PEPPER. Dr. ~ l i l e y , have you anything to say about Mrs.

S h a r p e ~Dr. ( h 3 R ~ O N . "yoes.

Dr. ~ f I L E Y . I saw her fairly early when she still had some tumormasses. Dr. Gerson was very enthusiastic in claiming they had gonedown. and they had gone down partially from the original, but sincethen they have really gone down much more, and I felt at the timehe was a little overenthusiastic about it. but certainly his results today,

6 to 8 Dlonths later. since I first w her, justify the fact that thereis ceJ:tainly a steady subsidence of any signs of recurrence, and shecertainly l"Pmnined clinically better.

Senator PEPI-Y.R.. Have you any other cases ¥Dr. MILEY. Cases haye to be observed for a long period of time

before any conclusions eRn be d r a w n ~ but she has proved defini telySenator PEPPEn. Dr. Gerson, have you had other c a s e s ~ now, of what

we would nornlally call "cancer" That is, what they think of as agrowth-tIle ordinary case of cancer.

Dr. GERSON. These. here. are recurrences.Senator PEPP1-3R. I ~ that what we ordinarily call "cancer"!Dr. GERSON. Yes: that is cancer.Senator PEPPER. Is that what she had!Mr. MARKEL. All these caSf'-8 had cancer.Dr. GERSON. Only that in the spinal cord. That is one without

metastasis. All others have metastases, and in nletastasis cases it is

known in medicine that they cannot be influenced.Senator PEPPER. How many people have you treated for cancer who

have favorably l'esponrled to your treatment, would you say ¥Dr. GERSON. I might say 30 percent; but they 'lre all the most hopeless cases, but when we get some not more than skin cancers, theyalways--easy to treat! And even skin cancer growing into the bonesas basal cell sarcoma, which are known in medical science that theycannot be influenced-as }Ir. Gimson had one, here, and the X-raysshow how far it had grown into the skull. Professor Howe was verymuch influenced when he saw this. This was growing through thebones. and now what is left an absolute scar.

Senator PEPPER. You said about~ o

percel1t of the cases that youhave treated



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Dr. GERSON. Yes. I would like if you will discuss this with Dr. l l iley. When I would say some things, then they would think maybe Iwould exaggerate it a lIttle bit. I might. I prefer to underestimate.That is much betterJ"you see; then others can have even better results.

Senator PEPPER. H.ave you anything to say by way of summary ofDr. Gerson's treatment, Dr. Miley!Mr. MARKEL. Dr. Miley would like to make a statement, if you please,

Senator, for the record, with respect to all these things.Senator PEPPER. Can you give me 1I sort of summaryDr. A.fiLEY. I will give it, and make this short, Senator Pepper.Senator PEPPER. Let me a...q you, Doctor, do you favor the appro-

priation of public money'Dr. GERSON.. I would be for i t -not .for myself, personally, but for

research..Senator PEPPER. 1 do not mean for yourself. Do you faVOl· gen-·eraIly the objectives of t.his bill ,

Dr. GEBSON. No. All physicians must have money for research.Research is very important In medicine. The most important thing

in medicine is research.Seriator P u l ~ . I say, you do favor it1 You said "no."Mr. MABJrF.Ih He thougllt you meant "object" to it.Dr. GERSON. I am i l l favor of the bill, of course.

Mr.MARKEL.

Yes; thatis

right.Senator PEPPF..B. All right; no\y" you tell us, Dr. ~ { i l e y . Go ahead.

STATEJIElIT BY DR. HOBSE ]III,EY, GOTHA. HOSPITAL,

.EW YOU CITY, 5. Y.

Dr. KILEY. I wish to congratulate you, Senator PE:"pper, on the bill.I t is a wonderful thing, and I endorse it w h o l e h ~ a r t e d l y . I think allof us are here f'Or the same purpose, r e ~ a r d l e s s of how we approachthe subject of cancer, and what our ideas are. As I ~ e it we are all

in support of you, Senator ~ e p p e r . Our only argument is perhapsin the way that good eaB be done for people, and that i ~ not a seriousdiiference.

I feel that the Gerson dietary r e g i ~ offers a. new approach to thecancer problem. We do know experimentally that diet definitelydoes influence cancer. There is a lot of experinlental work done, verygood work done to substantiate that. I will run through this state.ment rather briefty.I do not think Dr. Get'SOtl has mentioned what the diet consists of

particularly. The Gerson dietary reginle is quite harmless and consists of a low salt, low f"t, low animal protein and high carbohydratediet, plus frequent injectioJUl of crude liver extracts and the oraladministration of adequate amounts of minerals and vitamins to supplement those vitam.ins missing in the diet. The diet consists chieflyof large amount of fresh fruit and frE:"sh vegetablE'S and does not allowany meat, milk, alcohol, canned or bottled foods. Tobacco in any

fonn is prohibited. The diet burns down to an alkaline ash and ingeneral is a combination of many well known and approved dietary

nutritional discovE:"ries by many other workers. I t is reasonable toassume that the closer one's diet is to nature and the soil. with freshfruit from the trE:"es and fresh vegetables directly from the garden,



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followed by certain definite eletrochemical changes, notably, shiftstoward normal or markedly unbalanced sodium, potassiUD1, and phos-phorous ratios in the blood serum and the body tissues. ,Dr. Keller,as a result of his investigation of the diet, beheves that this type ofelectrochemical reaction can very well change the entire metabolismof the body in cancer patients. A preliminary paper by Dr. Gersondescribes the diet in detail and cites 10 cases of cancer in which itappeared that the Gerson dietary regime favorably influenced thecourse and symptoms of the disease.This new approach to the cancer problem is of fundamental im-

portance because it is the first promising method which treats canceras a systemic disease, that is, a disease of abnormal chemistry of thewhole body. Heretofore, all efforts to treat cancer have 1?een basedupon the theory that eradication of the cancer growth must be per-formed by surgery, X-ray, or radium without regard for abnormalbody chemistry which permits the growth to occur. The reason thatsurgery, X-ray, and radiu111 have not been a real success in the treatment of cancer is that cancer is primarily a disease of abnormal bodychemistry, chemistry which is controlled by organs far distant fromthe site of the cancer. The Gerson .dietary regime is an encouragingattempt to return such abnorInal body chemistry to normal.

There are certain definite problenls to be overcome before any type oftreatment of cancer can be considered partially or wholly successful,problems which are not solved by surgery, radium, or X-ray. A sur-\ley 1 made by Dr. Stanley Reimann of cancer cases in Pennsylvaniaover a long period of time showed that those who received no treatment lived longer than those that received surgery, radium, or X-ray.The exceptions were those patients who had received electrosurgeryin other words, th,e surgery with an electrical knife-and lived ap-proxilnately as long as those who received no treatment whatsoever.The survey also showed that following the use of radium and X-ray

much 1110re harm than good was done to the average cancer patient.This is a conclusion which is not generally accepted and is highlycontroversial among leading cancer workers. I t would appear. thatnone of the routine measures employed today to COlllbat cancer is aseifective as their proponents would have us believe.

We have made two new approaches to the solution of the chief prob-lems which have to do with the cancer patient, itself. In other words,we are trying to do the best we can for all types of cancer patientsor propose something which can be studied over a long time, of some

significance.(1) The abolition of pain has been possible only by the use ofnarcotics, which are deleterious to any patient's ~ n e r a l health whenadministered over a long period of time. This problem, in my opinion,has b ~ e n solved more by the Gerson diet than by any other Dlethodtoday. We have observed marked relief of pain in approximately90 percent of the patients who entered the hospital with severe typesof pain due to cancer.

(2) The further spread of ca.ncer processes has been apparently

retarded by the use of the Gerson dietary regime in several casesobserved. .(3) A reduction in the size of the original malignant growth has



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Gerson diet, although in some of his private patients his filHlings are

very encouraging, I should say.(4) The reduction of metastases or secondarily disseminated cancers

from the original growth has 110t been observed in the Gothmll Hos~ i t a l series, but in certain instances of private patients seen in Dr.Jerson's office, there was an apparent disappeurallee of 'lnetastaticnodules.(5) The control of acute pyogenic (pus fornling) infections in

areas eroded by cancer.,· which is OM of the chief causes of death inlJ. cancer patient. The only type of treatment in nlY experience thathas been of any use in the control of this type of infection is ultraviolet blood-irradiation therapy, in which I haye pioneered for lllanytyears, and in which we have tried it in infections which have not re,ponded to sulfa drugs or penicillin. We 'feel that although this

) « ~ r s only a. temporary relief of 3 to 4 weeks' duration, it is of ex~ e m e importance to the welfare of the individual patient, especiallywhere the patient's general health must be raised to a level high:·nough to allow the institution of other treatment, whether the (JerSOlljietary treatInent, surgery, or anything else that ln3V be suggested.(6) The acute toxic symptoms, such us nausea and vomiting, which

l.re commonly observed in n t"onsidernble nUlllber of cancer patientsnay-be temporarily alleviated by ultraviolet blood-irradiation therapy.rhlS result, though often ooly temporary, allows the institution of

>ther therap:y 'Yhich o t h e l ' w i ~ might ~ o t haye been possible and asinch has a lImIted but defilute vuIue III the treatment of a cancerJotient.(7) Hemorrhage due to erosion by cancer mnsses is a frequent

~ a u s e of death. Its control is only possible if there is no spread ft'omin original cancer or there is a reduction in the originnl tumor orts metastases. To date the Gerson diet is of value in the control oflemorrhage only to the extent to which i t limits directly the eneroaehnent of cancer masses upon important blood vessels.(8) General debility, and especially loss of weight, have been fre

luently overcome by both the Gerson dietary r e ~ i n l e and ultraviolet}lood-irradiation therapy, which fortunately may be used togethervithout anv contraindlcations whntsoevQl". • As a result nl$nV fornerly debilltated patients were able to" do llornlal work again. oJ

Senator PEPPER. Does the putient sllstain l lny loss of weight f1'0111

:he Gerson diet 'Dr. MILEy. No. The diet, although yery 10"· in aniInal p r o t e i n ~ieems

to befollowed

atfirst

byatemporary

lossofweight, whieh isIsually due to loss of fluid due to the restriction of salt. I think thi5

ialt-free diet plays a big part in t.he reduction of jell aroWld cancernasses. This is a rather well-known finding, and it is one of thenany things which Dr. Gerson has used, which is known to in'fluelleemch swelling.

(9) The maintenance of the morale of the cancer patient is oflrimary importance at all times. When anyone or any combination)f the preVIously mentioned eight problenls are solved for the iucli

-idual cancerp u t i e n t ~

his or her1110rale

is enol'lnously improved sohat the practical solution of one or lnore of these problenls must becC'OIuplished wherever possible regardless of whether the patient

:ollsidel'ed a hopeless case of cancer or not. That is a hmnalle way



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Next we lllust consider the problems to be overcome in the prevention of cancer. The pertinent ones are, in my opinion, as follows:

(1) The discovery of the various causes of the various types ofcancer.(2) The elilnination of the causes as they becOine known without

the tragic long interval between theI n a k i n ~

of a fundamental disCOYfry and the better u n d e r s t a l l d i n ~ of its IDlportance and the fullrealization of its benefits to mankind.

(3) Generalized education in regard to the various causes of canceras thev beconle known.The'l'e huye been Inany approaches to deterlnine the causes of cancer.

From clinical observations on cancer patients, the Gerson dietaryregime for example provides a most promising lead. In order to profitfrom this knowledge an enormous amount of collateral biochemistrymust be curried out intensively on both cancer patients and canceraninlals by competent workers who are equipped with science's mostup-to-date tools for such work. There are many great institutionsdoing this work. Prolninent among theln are the Lnnkenau ResearchInstitute of Philadelphia, the National Health Insti tute of Bethesda,Md._ Rockffeller Institute, not to mention many others.There are no special cancer hospitals as yet doing this highly special

ized work in biology and b i o c h e m i s t ~ y to allY appreciable degree thoughthey should be encouraged to do this funumnental work in closerelation to their carrying out the well-known and often not too !:)uccess-ful routine treatlnent of cancer by surgery, radium, and X-ray.The history of medicine is filled with tragic errors which allow such

a long tilne to elapse between-the time of discovery of a basic principleand the actuallnedical application of the discovery for the good ofmankind. To quote from a recent paper by Htunmett (Science, vol.103, No. 2685, p. 714) :

Nowhere today is this delay more unhappily evident than in the tleld ofcancer research. The accumulated data of Hous, Shope, Coley, Bittner, Strong,AndE'rvont, Green, Greene, Williams, Taylor, Furth, Twombly, Cowdry, Diller.

Bawden, Pirie. Stanley. 'Vycoff, Kunitz. and others indicate beyond peradventurethe path for getting at something of practical benefit to the c a n ~ r patient ofthe future other than surgery and radium.

Even the newly announced radioactive phosphorus cure of skincaneer, and skin cancer only, does not approach the deeper bodyeancer problfm from a systemic or fundanlental point of view butis a step forward in the local treatment of cancer.

I t is obvious that the many potentialities inherent in the Gersondietary regime for cancer patients should be explored and exploited

to the fullest extent for the common good. In order that this newand highly encouraging approach to the problem of ca·ncer cure andprevention be utilized on a statistically significant scale by bothlaboratory and clinical workers alike, sufficient funds must be Inaneavailable for this work. This also holds true for the. supplementaluse of ultraviolet blood-irradiation therapy in controlling secondaryinfections and certain toxic symptoms in cancer patients. These observations have become apparent to several distinguished physicianswho have witnessed the effects of the Gerson diet on cancer patitlntR

:Iud whose sip:ned statements are also herewith fnclosed. .Therefore. it is my carefully considered opinion tha.t in view ofthe success so far and the excellent future promise of both the Gerson



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dietary regime and ultraviolet blood-irradiation therapy, it would beunthinkable not to ~ i v e major consideration to these new avenues ofapproach to the cancer problem.in the research program contemplatedby bill S. 1875.

(The remainder of Dr. Miley's prepared statement, together with

the signed statements of certain distinguished physicians, et cetera,are as follows:)

STATE)(PT o r DL G ID " MII.EY BEI'ORE THE SUBCOKKrrrEE 0lI' FoutoN RELA-TIONS, UNITED STATIB SElfATJC. OR' JULY 2. 1946, RE CANCER APPBOPBlATIONS

BILL, S. 1875

My name Is Dr. George Miley. I was born in Chicago, 1907. gradnate4 fromChicago Latin Blgh Sehool, 1923, graduated with B. A. from Yale Unift'l"SityIn 1927. from Northwestern Medical School. 1932, interned a.t Chicago MemorialHospital In 1932 and 1983, University 'ot Vienna Postgraduate Medical School.

1933, 1984. followiDg wb1eb I naited the hospitals in India. Cbina, aud Japan.. Next practtced medicine and surgery in Cedar Rapids, Iowa, until January1937. wben I moved to Phlladelpbla to enter the department of pharmacologyat the Hahnemann· Medical o>nege arid Hospital of Philadelphia. ReceiVeddoctor ot medical selenC!e from Habnemann in 1941 for original research inultraviolet blood irradiation therapy. Have been in medical research asclinical professor of pharmaco1ou and director of the Blood Irradiation Clinicot the latter institution.I am a fellow of the Amerlean Medical Association. National Gastroentero

logical Assoetatton. A D1ember of the New York State and New York CountyMedical Societies, Pennsylvania State and Philadelphia County Medical Sode-

ties. Philadelphia Physiological Soelety, American Rheamatism ASsociation,and Amertean Association for the Advancement of Science. I bold a nationalboard certiftcate and am liceued to practice in the States of Iowa, Illinois.Pennsylvania. ~ n d New Yort. Since August 1945. I have been medical directorof the Gotlulm Hospital, New York. in charge qf blood irradiation research. andam acting as the representative of Dr. Stanley Reimann, its head of oncology(science of tumors), and pathology (science of nbnormal anatomy), to observeand control as n e c e s ~ a r y . the expfTimental work of Dr. Max Gerson in thestudy of the cUnical effects of diet on cancer patients at the Gotham Hospital.During my research in the field of ultraviolet blQOd irradiation therapy-,s

which experience inclurles tile administration nnd U!'le of the method over 8.000times in more than 3.000 lndivtdllals, many Important clinical observations weremade which were substantiated by other workers In the same field. Thosewblch haYe to·do with the cancer problems are as follows:(1) Acute pyogenic (pus formlnc) Infections In and around the cancerous

area can be controlled better bl blood irradIation than by .ny other knownmethod.

(2) The acute toXic 8YJIII)tom8 often present In cancer patients can best becOntrolled by ultraviolet blood Irradiation therapy. which Is the best detoxicating agent known to modern medIclne, according to the workers in this field.(3,) The efficient control of vtl'tl8 and viruslike infections has been observed

by tJlood Irr4dlation workers tbrougbout the country. This Is extremely 1m-poriant in Ught ot the recent demonstration that mothers' milk may contain

a transmissible agent productive of malignant growth possibly of a virus nature.Also, there are certain types ot experimental cancer which are produced specifically by a vlrns, 80 that any method which can inactivate viruses may beImportant for the treatment of the cancer patient.

(4) Ultraviolet blood Irrad1atipn therapy has no Influence whatsoever oncancer itself Insofar as may be judged by the experiences of all blood irradia-tion workers and In the light of our present knowledge ot the subject.,

The Gerson dietary regime Is quite harmless and consists of a low·salt.low-tat. low animal protein, and hlgh-carbohydrate diet, plus frequent Injections of. crude liver extracts and the oral administration of adequate amounts

of minerals and vitamins to supplement those vitamins missing in the diet.The diet consists ehieftT ot large amounts of fresh fruit and fresh vegetablesand does not allow any meat. milk, alcohol, canned or bottled foods. Tobacco



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in any form is prohibited. The diet burns down to an alkaline ash and, ingeneral, is a combination of many well-known and approved dieta.ry nutritionaldiscoveries by many other workers. I t is reasonable to aSSume that the closerone's diet is to nature and the soil, with fresh fruit from the trees and .freshvegetables directly from the garden, the nearer one is to normal health. Primarybiochemical investigations by Dr. Rudolph Keller indicate that the use of

the diet is soon followed by certain definite electrochemical changes; notably,shifts toward normal of markedly unbalanced sodium, potassium, and phosphorous ratios in the blood serum and the body tissues. .Dr. Keller, as a resultof his investigation of the diet, believes that this type of electrochemicalreaction can very well change the entire metabolism of the body in cancerpatients. A preliminary paper by Dr. Gerson 2 describes the diet in detail andcites 10 cases of cancer in which i t appeared that the Gerson dietary r e g i m ~fa voraftIy influenced the course and symptoms of the disease.This new approach to the cancer problem is' of fundamental importance because

i t is the first promising method which treats cancer as a systemic disease; that is,a disease of abnormal chemistry of the whole body. Heretofore, all efforts to

treat cancer have been based upon the theory that eradication of the cancergrowth 'must be performed .by surgery, X-ray or radium without regard forabnormal body chemistry which permits the growth to occur. The reason thatsurgery, X-ray, and radium have not been a real success in the treatment of. canceris that cuncer is primarily a disease of abnormal body chemistry, chemistrywhich is controlled by organs far distant from the site of the cancer. The Gersondietary regime is an encouraging attempt to ret1!l'll such/abnormal body chemistry

to normal.I first met Dr. Gerson in 1942, at which time I was interested in the effects of

the Gerson diet on tuberculOElls. I visited his office at 667 Madison Avenue,New York City, with Dr. Charles Bailey, outstanding Philadelphia and New

York chest surgeon, and we observM several tuherculosis patients who had maderemarkable recoveries f o n o w i n ~ the use of the Gerson diet. D u r i n ~ this visit Dr.Gerson· mentioned to me, for the first time, the potential use of the Gerson dietin cancer, an idea which then seemed rather fantastic to me, but no longer does.In the last 4 years I have found Dr. Max Gerson to be an honest and ethicalpractitioner of medicine, interested in bet tering modern methods of treatment,as the resu lt o f many years of clinical study of the 'effects of diet on variousqisease p r o e e s ~ s . Since January 1946, we have, at the Gothnm Hospital, extended hospital facilities, including a special diet kitchen to Dr. Gerson, for 8

controlled study and o b ~ e r v a t i o n of his work by physicians. The 'results are,in my opinion, most e n c o u r a g 1 n ~ , but a tremendous amount of work needs to be

done as~ ' e t

befores t a t i ~ t i c a l l y

RilOlificanto o n c l n ~ i o n s

can b? reached.There are certain definite problems to be overcome before any type of trentment of cancer can be considered partially or Wholly succesSful, problems whichare not solved by surgery, radium or X-ray. A survey made by Dr. Stan1eyReimann of cancer cases in Pennsylvania over a long period of time showed thatthose who r,ecelved no treatment lived longer than those that received surgery,radium, or X-ray. The exceptions were those patients who had received electl"Q-surgery and lived approximately as long as those who recPivt>(] no treatMent wh3tsoever. The surves also showed that following the use of radium and X-ray muchmore harm than good was done to tht> avernge c a n ~ : : > r patif'nt. This is a conclusionwhich is not generally accepted and is highly controversial among leading cancer

workers.I t

would appear that none of the rontine measures employed today tocombat cancer are as effective us their proponents would have us beHeve.These problems and two new approaches to their solution are described as

follows:( l ) The abolition of pain h3s bPt>n p o ~ ~ i b l f ' f\n1y by tht> uSe of n a r c o t i ( ' ~ , which

are deleterious to any pat ient 's general health wJ:1en administpred over i I longperiod of time. This problem, in my opinion, has been solved more by the G"r80ndiet than any other method todny. \Ve have o b ~ e r v e d markefi relief of pn.inin approximately 90 perct>nt of the patients who entered the hospital with severetypes of pain due to cancer .

(2) The further spread of cancer processes have been apparently retarded

by the use of the Gerson dietary regime in several cases obsen'ed.(3) A reduction in the size at the original malignant growth has been observedto occur in certain instances following the use of the Gerson diet.



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(4) The reduction of metastases or secondarily disseminated cancers from theoriginal growth bas not been observed in the Gotham Hospital series, but incertalp instnnces of private patients seen In Dr. Gerson's oflice, there was anapparent disappearance of metastatic nodules. ,

(5 ) The control of acute pyogenic (pus forming) infections In areas eroded bycancer, wblch 18 one of the cllief causes of death in a cancer patient. The onlytype of treatment In my experience thait bns been at. any use In the control o f thistype of infection Is ultraviolet blood irradiation therapy, already mentioned, andthis, though only offerlnc a temporary relief of S to • weeks' duration, Is ofextreme Importance to the welfare of the individual patient, especially where thepatient's general health must be raised tQ a level high enough to allow the institution of other tJ:eatment sueb sa tIae Geawn dietary regime.(6) The acute toxic symptoms. 81lCb as nausea add vomiting, which is com

monly obServed In a considerable number of cancer patients may be temporarilyalleviated by ultraviolet blood irrndlation therapy. This result, though oftenonly temporary, allows the Institution of other therapy which otherwise mightnot have been possible aDd as BUeb bu • Umtted but definite value in the treatmentof a cancer patient.

(7) Hemorrbace due to eroeton b7 caneer masses Is a t ~ u e n t cause of death.Its control is only possible I f there is no spread from an original cancer or thereIs a reduction in tbe orittlnal tumot' or its metastases. To date the Gerson diet isof value hi the control of hemorrbage only to the extent to which i t llmits directlytile encroachment of cancer maues upon.1mportant blood vesSels.

(8 ) General debility, and especla1.1.Y loss of w e ~ h t , bave been frequentlyov.ercome by both the Gel'8Oll dietary regime and ultraY!olet blood Irradiationtherapy, which fortunately ~ be tJ8ed tocether without any eontloalndicutlonswhatsoever. As a resulLJD8JlT. fonDerIy debilitated patients were able to donormal work &pin.(9) The maintenance of the morale o f the caDCer patient is of prbnary im

portance at all times. WIlE-n any ODe, or any combination of the previous eightproblems are solved for tbe IDdtvidUal cancer patient, his or her morale Isenormously ImproVed so that the p ~ c ~ i c a l solution of one or more of these problems must be accompl1shP.Cl wherever r-slble regar<Uess of whether the patient isconsidered a hopeless case of caneer or not.Next we must consider the problemS" to be overcome In the prevention of cancer.

The pertinent ones are, In m y oplniOD, U follows:(1 ) The discovery o f the varioaa causes of the varioos types of cancer.(2) The elimination of the causes as they become known without the tragic

lung inter"al between themaJdng of a fundamental discovery and the betterundnstr.nding of Its importance and the f u l l realization of Its benefits to mankind

(3) Generalized education lD rept-d to the variousC&118e8

o f cancer811

theybecome known. . .

There have been mnn7 approad1e8 to determine the eat08e8 o f cancer. Fromclinical observations on c:a.ncer patientll, the Genon d1eta1"7 regime provides amost proruisinglead. IDorder to proftt from this knowledge an enormousllJDount of collateral biochemistry must be carried out Intensively on both Cftncerpf.ltients anrl cancer animals by ecD.petent workers wbo are equipped with science'smost up-to-date tools for such work. There are many grpat institutions doingtbis work. Prominent amoq them are the Lankenau RetJenrch Institute ofPhiladelphia, th e Natlonal Health Institute of Bethe8da, Md., Reckefeller Institute·, not to mention many othe....There are

no~ p e c i a l cancer hoapltals as yet

doingthis highly

specializedwork

Inbiology and b i o c h e m 1 8 t r ~ ' to any appreciable degree- though they should be encournged to do this fundamental work in close relation to their carrying outthe well-known and not too suecesstul routine treatment of cancer by 8urgerY.,radium, and ~ - r a y .The ideal vehicle for the administration of the large funds necessary for

the furtherance of tile study of the principles involved, successful treatment forthe prel"ention of cancer Is, in my opinion, a privately controlled, nonprofitresearch foundatlQll. Reeently such a medical research foundation has beenorganized which recognizes the value of the two new avenues of approach tocancer mentioned above, and is now in the final stages of legalization. Thefoundation has been organized for medical research because of the feellng by its

organizers that such a foundation devoted exclusively to medical research fulfillsa definite need for the carefUl exploration of many important discoveries which



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for an unnecessarily long period of time, have been, or may be, overlooked forlack of sutllcient funds and a proper admini!':trative vehicle devoted to theinvestigation of promising original wotk. Such work often has been consideredunimportant or unorthodox by existing avenues of research that have remainedclosed to many worthwhile scientific worl\:ers.The foundation wentioned will be devoted to the correction of the deficiency

which allows, in our present American research practice, this delay of actionin making known and clinically applicable important b a ~ i c discoveries. In thevery near future i t is proposed to set up within the structure of the foundation an institute of dietetics devoted to the careful correlation of all biochemicaland medical knowledge pertaining to the influences of the diet on cancerousgrowth and its various detrimental effects; at the foundation's institute ofdietetics, . this knowledge of its practical application will be taught to thosedietetians, nurses, technicals, physicians and other cancer research workers whoare interested in its approach' to solving the problem of the cure and preventionof cancer. Such a foundation also insures both the hospital and the laboratoryfacilities which are so essential for the testing of new treatmeBts which may

conceivabiy hiftuence favorably the course and symptoms of cancer. In suchan envirbnment a carefully controlled evaluation of promising methods of treat-ment of human cancer would be made available.The his tory of medicine is filled with tragic errors which allow such a long

time to elapse between the time of discovery of a basic principle and the actualmedical appUcation of the discovery for the good of mankilJd. To quote from arecent paper by Hammett (Science, vol. 100, No. 2685, p. 714) :"Nowhere today is this delay more unhappily e,-iuent than in the field of

cancer research. The accumulated data of Rous, Shope, Coley, Bittner, Strong,Andervont, Green, Greene, Williams, Taylor, Furth, Twombly, Cowdry, Diller,Bawden, Pirie, Stanley, Wycoff. Kunitz, and others indicate beyond ~ r a d v e n -ture the path for getting at something of practical benefit to the cancer

p n t i ~ n tof the future other than surgery and radium."Even the neWly announced radioactive phosphorous cure of skin cancer and

skin cancer only does not approach the deeper body cancer problem from asystemic 01" fundamental point of ,-iew but is a step forward in the local treatment of cancer.

I t is obvious that the many potentialities inherent in the Gerson dietaryregime for cancer patients should be explored and exploited to the fullest extenttor the common good. In order that this new and highly enconraging approachto the problem of cancer cure and prevention be utilized on a statistically significant scale both laboratory and clinical workers alike, sufficient funds must

be made available for this work. This also holds true for the supplemental useof ultraviolet blood irradiation therapy in controlling secondary infections andcertain toxic SymptODlS in cancer patients. These observations have becomeapparent to several distinguished physicians who have witnessed the effects ofthe Gerson diet on cancer patients and whose signed statements are also herewith enclosed.Therefore, it·is my carefully considered opinion that in view of the success

80 far and the excellellt future promise of both the Gerson dIetary regime andultraviolet blood irradiation therapy, i t would be unthinkable not to give majorconsideration to these new avenues of approach to the cancer problem in the

rescarck program contemplated by bil l S. 1875.

NEW YOBK 21, N. Y., Jufte 29, 19"'6.Dr. GEORGE M1L&T,

Jledical Director, Gotllam H o,pital,New York, N. Y.

DEAB DB. MILEY: In the last 6 months I have had occasion to observe severalpatients with advanced cancer treated by the Gerson dietary regime. W h i l ~all of them did not respond to the treatment, the favorable results in somewere very striking, much more 80 than otherwise could have been expected.

I believe that this type of treatment should be investigated intensively andon a large scale as i t presents many potentialities for the benefit of the cancerpatient.

Sincerely,



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NEW YOJU[, June rt, 19-+6.

.A1rrBUB L. WASHBUlU', M. D.

Dr. G..- Kn.i:Y,NetD York, N. Y.

) IT Dua DB. M1LI:Y: I have observed several cases of malignancy whichhave apparently been arrested by the Gerson diet , and I am convinced thatevery opportunity should be clven to the continuation of this research.

Sincerely yours, HUBERT S. HowE, M. D.

NEW YORK, JUKe !8, 19.6.

Dr. GIlOBGE Kngr,JledtcallHreelor, tile QolAcam Hoapital,

NfItD York !1, N. Y.

DJ:AB DR. MILEY: 'For over S years I have been observing the effects of theGerson dietary regime on caneer patients, and it is my carefully consideredopinion that many of these patients have been greatly benefited by this tYPeof treatment. The method should be giyen an intensive trial, 8S it offers a

new and promising approach to the hitherto unsolved problem of a successfultreatment for cancer.

Sincerely youn,

NEW YORK. 21, N. Y., JUf&e 21, 1946.Da. Gmaoz Mn.J:r,

Medical Director, tAe Qot1uJ", Ho8pital,New Yarle, N. Y.

DEAa DB. MILl':Y: As you know, I have closely followed the C3fWS of malignancy

under treatment by the Gel'BOn diet. particularly the pulmonary ones. I havebeen much impressed by the &ppal'eDt reduction of the tumor in several cases andthe marked clinical improvement 111 man..v of the others. There certainly is adeftnite benefit in many instances, nnd it,is my firm belief that the research mustbe continued along these Uues.

With best regardst I am,SlncerelYt

CHARLES P. BAILEY, M. D.

Senatoz: PEPPER. Thank you very much, Dr. Aliley. We appreciate

your commg.Dr. GERsoN. I have here a letter from a doctorwith whom I worked

t o ~ t h e r 7 years, and he would like to give you his statement.Senator PEPPER. All right", I will just put it in the record, then.

Dr. Gerson hands me a letter from Dr. Heinrich F. Wolf, 667 MadisonAvenue, New York, dated July 1, 1946, reading as follows:

For the last 7 years I have shared the ..same office with Dr. ~ I a ' X Gerson. andIn that time I have ba4 the opportnnlty, not only to obserre nearly all the impOrtant cases treated by Dr. Gerson with his diet, but I have used the latter on

my own patients.The results in some chronic Ik1n diseases, In some types of heart diseases

and In some dangerous cases ot high blood pressnre, were astonishing. In someof my patients the blood pressure tbat had heen up to 170 nnd 180, went downto 130 permanently, and the symptoms of hendaches and dizziness disappearedentirely.

During the last 3 or 4 years, since Dr. Gerson paid partirular attention tothe effect of his dietary regime on benign and malignant tumors, I observedpractically all of the tumor cases which he treated. I observed nnd supervisedtheir X-ravs and saw the patients at maarly every ViRit.~ of the first cases of malignant tumors was a Mr. Baldry (1942) who, after

surRicnl removal of a mixed tumor of the left side of the DPCk, developed ametastatic tutnor of the right lung which was d i a ~ o s e d by X-ray and bronchoscopv. The tumor dilllappenred and tbert'\ was no recurrence when we lastheard from the patient about one year ago (1945).



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In 1942 I saw one of his patients who bad been operated on for cancer oftbe tonsils and subsequently treated by radium and X-ray which resulted inan X-ray ulcer about 2 inches in diam.eter. There were several metastasis in theclands of the neck. Under the dietary treatment the ulcer healed, the glandsb e c a ~ e very much smaller. After a year the patient left New York. Later Iread in the papers that the patient died, 2 months ago.

Since then I have observed many cases of primary and metastatic cancer.I skw two patients, each with a colostomy which had been performed becausethe cancer had com.pletely obstructed the lumen of the sigmoid and rectum.

I verUled this personally by barium enemas carried out throuch the colostomyopentna and the rectum.In one case (H) the colostomy wound closed and noru:al passage of the

bowels was establlabed.The other pat ient t reated for about 9 months has gained welgbt. I had no

opportunity to reexamine him as far as the local condition was concerned. Isaw him last 3 weeks ago. ,

One of my OWD patients whom I referred to Dr. Ger80n because she had been

sutferinc from cancer of the stomach for half a year is doing well. I saw her4 weeks ago.

One of Dr. Gerson's patients who upon a laminectomy was found to sufferfrom an inoperable mallgnant intramedullary gUma tumor, bas regained tbe useof her arm which was paralyzed when I first saw her 7 months ago. I saw herlast 2 weeks ago.

Among bis patients I saw four cases of m a l l ~ a n t brain tumor, one of themmetastatic. Two seem to be now perfectly well, both of the others had theirfailing eyesight partly restored; the progress was arrested.

I saw three women who had been opel·ated on for breast tumorB. malignantand verified by biopsy, and who had had a recurrence. In all three the metastatic

tumors in the lymph glands disappeared, in one of them also a local recurrence.Therewere quite a nnmber of failures also but they were in my opinion due

to tbefact that Dr. Gerson accepted for t r e a t l l ~ e n t patients Who were 80 fargone that they were absolutely hopeless, even for the most optimistic observer.

I wisb to mention that the dietary treatment is equally etfective in benigntumors.In one of two ca8eS of goiter, the goiter disappeared. In the other the tumor

shrunk to about one- third its size. In the first-mentioned ease the diagnosis ftfmalignancy was made in the Memorial Hospital, but the method used. is notaccepted as reliable.In a case of Reckl1nghausen the neurofibromas in the face have practically

disappeared.In a case of mroma of the uterus of the size of a small w a t e ~ e l o n , clearly

outlined by X-ray films, the tUmor has become much smaller.This statement is not Intended to give exhaustive summary of Dr. Gerson's

work. I t Is not a copy of his records but a simple report of my personal observatlolUl for which I can vouch.

I am intentionaUy refraining from entering into the question of the theoreticalfoundation of thisPfuethod but only report my personal observation of the facts.

. lIErNuCH F. WOLF, I I . D.

Senator :PEPPER. The 'Witnesses who care to examine the testimony

that they have given, as recorded by the reporter, can get accessto the testimony in room 249, Senate Office Building, where it willbe available tomorrow.Dr. GERSON. Mr. Swing is present.Senator PEPPER• .Mr. Raymond Gram Swing, would you care to

say anythi.ng on the general subject, here, of this bill, or anythingrelated to It!

Mr. SWING. I can ~ e a k only as a layman.Senator PEPPJm. Of course, everyone knows the recognized ability

of Raymond Gram Swing as one of our distinguished radio commentators in this country.



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STATEXEIT BY :u:nro1lD G U K SWDG, RADIO :NEWS

COXXDTATO:a

Mr. SWINo. I think this bill is one of the most encouraging ex-pressions of intelligent democracy. I hope that it gets the full ap-

proval of C o ~ I t has an inspired work to do, and I wantto say in partiCular that before I came here today I have seen seineof the cancer patients of Dr. Gerson, and I believe that research alongthese lines is so n ~ and sci hopeful that I am delighted thatyou, Senator, have had the heart and the courage to bring thedoctor heret..and some of his patients; and I thank: you for it.&:nator YRPa . Thank you, Mr. Swing. We appreciate your

commg.The nearings will be neessed until 10 o'clock tomorrow morning,

and we will liave a number of distinguished witnesses at that time.That is expected to condade the heanngs on this bilL The hearingtomorrow will be in this I'OOJIL

(Whereupon, at 1 p. m., the subcommittee recessed until tomorrow,Wednesday, July 3, 1948, at 10 L DL)

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